This section describes the role of commands in the Abaqus GUI toolkit. The following topics are covered:

• “An overview of commands,” Section 6.1

• “The kernel and GUI processes,” Section 6.2

• “Executing commands,” Section 6.3

• “Kernel commands,” Section 6.4

• “GUI commands,” Section 6.5

• “AFXTargets,” Section 6.6

• “Accessing kernel data from the GUI,” Section 6.7

• “Receiving notification of kernel data changes,” Section 6.8